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WOW. The New Melodyne

Posted:
Thu Mar 13, 2008 7:17 pm
by tunetown

Posted:
Thu Mar 13, 2008 7:19 pm
by Thirteen
That demo is amazing. I own Melodyne studio, I will definately get the upgrade for this...

Posted:
Thu Mar 13, 2008 7:33 pm
by tunetown
I've never had the pleasure. I always just want the performance right. But this is just amazing and I'll probably buy it. I can see so many uses. I may even rewrite some old classic recordings. I wonder how it will go with electric guitars and all those harmonic overtones.
The future is here.
Cheers
Peter

Posted:
Thu Mar 13, 2008 7:36 pm
by wez
f@#$ me

Posted:
Thu Mar 13, 2008 7:44 pm
by headman
I got an email last night from Celemony. The Melodyne plugin 2 will be the first update released. To upgrade from my version plugin will be $129 US. Sound like it's too good to pass up
headman

Posted:
Thu Mar 13, 2008 8:23 pm
by Kris
If I didn't see that demo with my own eyes I would never have believed it.
Time to buy shares in Celemony.

Posted:
Thu Mar 13, 2008 8:27 pm
by rick
even in my world where that is the last thing i would ever want to do to a recording, i am left wondering how the hell it works... wow is the certainly the word ,
but then i suddenly remembered that i still dont know or understand how they get the little people into my television set every time i turn it on :)
its clear there are people out there much smarter then anybody ever needed to be.

Posted:
Thu Mar 13, 2008 8:50 pm
by Simon B
I will buy it after the first upgrade......... but it seems too good to be true

Posted:
Thu Mar 13, 2008 9:03 pm
by Aearth
I saw it today demoed at Sounddevices it blew me away. I made my order straight away, just have wait 6 months, geeeee.
nIC

Posted:
Fri Mar 14, 2008 9:52 am
by TimS
All I can say is wow - that is pretty amazing!!

Posted:
Fri Mar 14, 2008 9:52 am
by heathen
I've used melodyne a few times, on this RNB track I mixed the girl sang the vox all quite nicely but added no 5ths or 7ths in the harmony tracks, fixed that with melodyne, just picked the phrases I thought should be moved up and it did it with great effect. Sounded spot on.
The new 1 I hav'nt checked out yet, but will.

Posted:
Fri Mar 14, 2008 10:11 am
by heathen
Ummmmmmmmm, ummmmmmmmmm errrrrrrrrrr, am I dreaming.
Yeah well thats a pretty awesome piece of software. My favourite part was the sampling capabilities, recording a chord from outstandingly high quality instruments and then separating the notes and being able to play them in realtime is incredible.
Ok guys who's got all the expensive guitars and other stringed instruments? Rick, Kris fellas where are you? Haha.
Hmmmm now when are we going to be able to type in lyrics and have melodyne sing it for us???
Ok Nic I believe you now.

Posted:
Fri Mar 14, 2008 11:25 am
by jkhuri44
...dont forget extracting a midi transcription from a polyphonic recording....
F&%K me....so many production possibilities!!!!

Posted:
Fri Mar 14, 2008 12:09 pm
by Kris

Posted:
Fri Mar 14, 2008 1:54 pm
by tunetown
Here's another one..........
http://www.zero-g.co.uk/index.cfm?articleid=805
I wonder when it will write the songs for us. I recon it's just a matter of time.
Cheers
Peter

Posted:
Fri Mar 14, 2008 3:17 pm
by TimS
Hmmmm
looks like I need one of these as well..


Posted:
Fri Mar 14, 2008 11:45 pm
by smash
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Look for Airplay online from next summer.

Posted:
Sat Mar 15, 2008 12:19 am
by Martin
yep, wow is right
forget sound quality and jitter and all your lovely techyness for second and think about the possibilities of this in a real live every day situation... massive!
melodyne is already useful enough in its mono form!
very impressed...

Posted:
Sat Mar 15, 2008 9:31 am
by tunetown
smash wrote:SmashTECH is proud to introduce an exciting new software product: AirPlay.
AirPlay is a music production toolkit that takes the work out of producing a radio ready single.
Airplay can produce a radio ready, heavily limited single in any of todays Genre's.
Pop, RnB, Rock, Dance, Pop/Rnb , Pop/Rock, Pop/Dance, RnB/Rock Rock/Dance and iDol.
Airplay comes in 5 versions.
The Premium Billboard edition
The Great Value UK Radio 1/Radio2 Bundle
The Midrange Indy edition
The Basic local content edition
and for a special time all editions come with a free C*******n plug-in too.
Look for Airplay online from next summer.
:-) hehe
Can't wait till this one's cracked...............;-)

Posted:
Sat Mar 15, 2008 11:32 am
by TimS
smash wrote:Airplay comes in 5 versions.
The Premium Billboard edition
The Great Value UK Radio 1/Radio2 Bundle
The Midrange Indy edition
The Basic local content edition
and for a special time all editions come with a free C*******n plug-in too.
Look for Airplay online from next summer.
Here's your FREE plugin
Tim..

Posted:
Sat Mar 15, 2008 11:44 am
by Sammas
They really need to roll this stuff into a program aimed purely at music composition and sound design. Imagine something like this and ableton live smashed together.

Posted:
Sun Mar 16, 2008 12:17 am
by Text_Edifice
Actually wondering about the applications outside of strictly audio production - particularly in terms of automated song recognition / scan for samples applications.

Posted:
Sun Mar 16, 2008 11:36 am
by smash
Actually wondering about the applications outside of strictly audio production - particularly in terms of automated song recognition / scan for samples applications.
All the lawyers take note... it does raise an interesting question, or rather takes a previously raised question further...
"At what point to samples, once processed, lose their previous legal owner."
Lets say that I have recorded a really lush string motif, and someone samples the recording, but uses Melodyne to alter the melody and rhythm.
Does the effort that you have gone to in getting those sounds, have any kind of i.p. rights as well as the actually mechanicals of the song.
And a practical question, how do you prove a melody was a sample that had been altered, and not a new recording?

Posted:
Sun Mar 16, 2008 4:37 pm
by Kris
I don't think it can extract an instrument from a mix. Notice how the samples are clean instruments? I think if it could do the extraction thing that would be fairly significant and worthy of mention in the demo video.

Posted:
Sun Mar 16, 2008 5:12 pm
by Text_Edifice
fair point re extraction but for sample / song analysis perhaps all you'd need is a tool that could scan for a particular arrangement of notes (e.g. horn line) out of a complex polyphonic source (mix). It looks like this could be done now but perhaps a mix would get too complicated for the software to process. Just thinking out loud about where the technology might end up.

Posted:
Sun Mar 16, 2008 6:36 pm
by Kris
It will definitely be interesting to try it out.

Posted:
Wed Mar 26, 2008 11:46 am
by tunetown
Some more demos'
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DLOHyxnMl1U
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qt5o5zlrq4Y
If wonder if copyright laws will need to change.
I'll say it again...........WOW
Cheers
Peter

Posted:
Thu Mar 27, 2008 1:18 pm
by tunetown
Well I finally bit the bullet and bought version 1 after I read
Customers purchasing Melodyne plugin after the 12th March 2008 will receive the update free of charge.
I am now entering the pitch correction world. I feel so dirty.
Peter

Posted:
Thu Mar 27, 2008 10:10 pm
by rob
crikey!
20 years ago i used to teach electronic music and i distinctly remember telling my students that doing something like this would be impossible....now i'm going to have to find them all and tell them i was wrong....actually i reckon there would be quite a few things i could confess to being wrong about whilst i'm at it.
still....it would be interesting to see how it performs with a real world instrument take...with finger squeaks, reverb, soundboard thumps and all the usual noises that make up a lot of instrumental recordings.
Rob

Posted:
Fri Mar 28, 2008 8:46 am
by heathen
rob wrote:crikey!
20 years ago i used to teach electronic music and i distinctly remember telling my students that doing something like this would be impossible....now i'm going to have to find them all and tell them i was wrong....actually i reckon there would be quite a few things i could confess to being wrong about whilst i'm at it.
still....it would be interesting to see how it performs with a real world instrument take...with finger squeaks, reverb, soundboard thumps and all the usual noises that make up a lot of instrumental recordings.
Rob
Are'nt you glad you did'nt say you'd eat your hat if this was ever possible. :)